Dr. Heather Scott-Marshall

RAACWI Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
PhD, Sociology, University of Toronto

Dr. Heather Scott-Marshall is a social scientist with a background in occupational health. She completed her PhD in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto.

She currently holds the Research Action Alliance on the Consequences of Work Injury (RAACWI) Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a project examining the prevalence and determinants of poverty in workers with a permanent impairment.

For the past two years, Dr. Scott-Marshall has been involved in research at the Institute for Work & Health on the social and economic consequences of work injury. Her projects in this area include an analysis of marital formation patterns in permanently impaired workers, and an evaluation of the comparative adequacy and equity of different workers’ compensation benefits programs in Canada. Another aspect of her research examines the health consequences of precarious employment experiences, as well as social inequalities in exposures to these experiences with a focus on how specific groups of workers are more vulnerable to adverse employment circumstances due to age, gender or race.

Dr. Scott-Marshall has published research on the political economy of work, with a focus on the impact of globalization and labour market restructuring on contemporary employment relations and the consequences for health.